economic value of low AS numbers

Thu Nov 17 19:59:37 UTC 2011

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 07:30:17PM +0000, Dave Hart wrote:
> 42  THINK-AS                                          [BJN1]
> 
>    [BJN1]    Bruce Nemnich       TMC       BJN at MIT-MC.ARPA
> 
> I have no idea which registry was maintaining AS number registrations
> when AS42 changed hands.  I suppose it's possible the current
> registrant acquired or merged with whatever entity THINK refers to,

"THINK", "TMC" and MIT give strong hints towards Thinking Machines
Corporation, a once-famous vendor of pretty supercomputers. :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_Machines_Corporation

Best regards,
Daniel

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